Two PhDs positions on Modelling Biodiversity of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

  Application deadline: 15 May 2016   Responsibilities Which (anthropogenic) factors determine species distributions and biodiversity? And what are the consequences of shifts in species distributions and changes in species persistence and biodiversity for ecosystem functioning? The Department of Environmental Science is looking for two PhD candidates to answer these questions by developing correlative and […]

PhD position in “Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Biodiversity and Environment”

A PhD position is open in the highly collaborative Research Training Group “Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Biodiversity and Environment”. Environmental conditions and biodiversity both vary across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and are tightly connected (Stein & Kreft, Biological Reviews). Understanding how environmental conditions and heterogeneity affect the distributions of individuals and […]